SHUNKYO-JO[trans.: An Album of the Attractions of Spring] Eleven folding leaves in the orijo (accordion album-format) style with ten fine illus. on the right side of each opening with facing haiku by various poets. Large oblong 4to (220 x 275 mm.), orig. wrappers. N.p.: Privately Printed, n.d. [but, according to Hillier, "probably belonging to the early years of the nineteenth century"]. First edition, and very rare, of this magnificently illustrated book, with superb and complex illustrations by Matsumura Goshun (1752-1811), Ki Chikudo, Nangaku, Toyo, Keibun, Soken, and others. This is a collection of haiku by various poets, each poem sumptuously illustrated with color prints by the above-mentioned artists. "The Shunkyo-jo, an undated anthology of haiku and ten pictures, is even rarer that the 1793 album [an untitled work with illustrations by Goshun], and none of its prints seems ever to have been reproduced previously. The copy in the Toritsu Chuo Library which I have studied is apparently the only one now traceable...There was a copy of Shunkyo-jo in the Odin collection, but it was evidently too badly damaged by wormage to warrant illustration. That album is, however, one of the glories of Japanese kubari-hon, with a series of prints on paper with the kind of surface that seems to coax subtle overtones from the colours used. The first print, by Nangaku, is a common enough subject, a plum-branch, but it is scattered with metal-dust of widely different tones, so that the sheet has the richness of a mediaeval manuscript, with all the indescribable hues that patination brings. Ki Chikudo provides a lovely design of magnolia blossom, which consorts well with the generally Shijo nature of the other contributions, though he is usually classified with the Nanga artists. Toyo, Keibun and Soken seem to go out of their way to prove how their different personalities can be expressed in drawings of cherry-blossom; but the greatest shock of pleasure is given by Goshun's superb print. Occupying the centre of the page is an irregular mass of sunlit, yellow foliage and superimposed on it are the outlines of flowers of wild rape, or charlock, in a light green. It defies any sort of classification in terms of style: it comes closer to a modern 'creative' print than one would have expected of a translation of an early nineteenth-century Shijo drawing into a woodcut: we cannot, indeed, conceive what the original drawing was like, but there must have been a great deal of creativeness on the part of the intermediary print-maker, who realized the potential of the drawing in a print of remarkable simplicity and charm."-Hillier, The Art of the Japanese Book, p. 525-(illustrated in color with plates 90 and 91). The fourth and sixth plates containing the most subtle embossing, further enriching the impact of the illustrations. A faultless copy preserved in a box. We do not locate a copy in WorldCat. .

Le Dran, Henri FrancoisThe operations in surgery of Mons. LeDran . . . with remarks, plates of the operations . . . by William Cheselden Gataker, Thomas, ed. London: C. Hitch & R. Dodsley, 1752. Cheselden's Only Work on General SurgeryLe Dran, Henri Francois. The operations in surgery of Mons. LeDran . . . with remarks, plates of the operations . . . by William Cheselden. 8vo. [8], 473, [3]pp. 22 engraved plates. Modern half morocco, marbled boards. Light toning. Early ownership signatures. Very good copy. Second edition in English. Le Dran is credited with major improvements in lithotomy (Garrison-Morton 4283), as well as original ideas on empyema and cancer (Garrison-Morton 2607), and valuable case reports in military and general surgery (Garrison-Morton 2149). This English translation, first published in 1749, contains William Cheselden/s only work on general surgery. Wellcome III, p. 473; ESTC (RLIN) N10665

The Tryal of Mary Blandy, Spinster; For the Murder of her Father, Francis Blandy, Gent. at the Assizes held at Oxford For the County of Oxford, On Saturday the 29th of February, 1752 . . . Published by Permission of the Judges. Folio Printed for John and James Rivington [etc.], London 1752 - Disbound, title and last leaf backed, definite browning, margins cut close, not affecting text; a usable copy only

Heister, LaurenceA Compendium of Anatomy in Which All the Parts of the Human Body Are Succinctly and Clearly Described: And Their Uses Explained W Innys & J Richardson. LEATHER_BOUND. Extremely scarce 1st English language version of this book. This book is disbound, with both front and rear board detached. Prev owners name to endpaper. Endpaper is taped in, rest of pages are solidly bound. Contents are clean and bright throughout. . Fair. 1752.

The Tryal of Mary Blandy, Spinster; For the Murder of her Father, Francis Blandy, Gent. at the Assizes held at Oxford For the County of Oxford, On Saturday the 29th of February, 1752 . . . Published by Permission of the Judges. Folio London: Printed for John and James Rivington [etc.], 1752. Disbound, title and last leaf backed, definite browning, margins cut close, not affecting text; a usable copy only

Swan, John; Jeffryes, Elizabeth; Blandy, Mary [1720 - 1752] - SubjectsThe AUTHENTICK TRYALS Of JOHN SWAN, And ELIZABETH JEFFRYES, For the Murder of Mr. Joseph Jeffryes of Walthamstow in Essex: with The Tryal of Miss Mary Blandy, for the Murder of her own Father. To Which are Added: The Particulars relating to those horrid Murders; the Behaviour and Dying Speeches of the Criminals; and whatever else is to be relied on as a true History of those memorable Offenders London:: Printed by R. Walker, for W. Richards,. 1752.. 4to: [A]^1 B - 2I^4. 7-1/4" x 4-5/8". 1st edition thus, i.e., with this specific imprint (ESTC T14525). One of 5 editions published in 1752, with this one recorded in just 3 holdings [BL, Harvard, U of Chicago]. [2], iv, 5 - 246 pp.. Modern speckled quarter calf binding with maroon title label to spine & marbled paper boards.. Binding - Fine. Textblock - Abt VG (age toned, with some minor edge. rash to leaves. Title leaf reattached).. Frontispiece, 'B. Coles Sculpt', now floated on supporting leaf.

Osorio, Jerome; James GibbsHistory of the Portuguese, During the Reign of Emmanuel: Containing All their Discoveries, from the Coast of Africk to the farthest Parts of China; their Battles by Sea and Land, their Sieges, and other memorable Exploits: With a Description .... A. Millar, London, 1752, Leather, Book Condition: Good, First Edition in EnglishSize: 5Â¼" by 8Â¼", ...of those Countries, and a particular Account of the Religion, Government, and Customs of the Natives. Including also, Their Discovery of the Brazils, and Their Wars with the Moors. Gibbs' scarce English version of Osorio's important history of Portuguese exploration, featuring Vasco da Gama, Magellan, Cabral, Albuquerque, and others. Osorio was well-regarded in his day as a stylist of Latin, earning the sobriquet 'the Portuguese Cicero'. First edition in English. Two volumes bound in period brown calf, red leather labels. Worn & frayed, hinges cracked but sound, heads of spines chipped, part of the label of volume two missing; catalogue clipping describing the set pasted inside front cover of volume 1, ink name & date (Nov. [19]43) in each volume, minor damage to endsheets, pencilled bookseller's notes inside rear, bookseller's label in rear of each volume; some staining to early/late pages; bookplate in volume one (see below), evidence of bookplate removal in volume two. Interesting provenance: volume one bears an armorial bookplate of severe simplicity: a blackletter 'E' under an Earl's coronet of five pearls - no doubt were one of sufficient breeding one would know exactly who that was. There were, as far as we can tell, three Earls 'E': Essex, Exeter & Euston. Essex was known to use an 'SX' sigil, but not necessarily exclusively; interestingly, it was Essex who carried off Osorio's extensive library when he sacked Faro in 1596, much of which ended up at the Bodleian; perhaps a later Essex completed the circle when he acquired Osorio's book....

Franklin, BenjaminA Letter from Mr. Franklin to Mr. Peter Collinson, F. R. S. concerning the Effects of Lightning WITH A Letter of Benjamin Framklin, Esq; to Mr. Peter Collinson, F. R. S. concerning an electrical Kite [London]: [ C. Davis ], 1752. First Edition. Disbound. Very Good. First Edition. 7 1/4 x 9 /14. We offer 2 extracts from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 47. For the Years 1751 and 1752 which include the first printing of Franklin's Kite Experiment which proved that lightning is an electrical discharge. Effects of Lightning is found on pages 289-291, and the Electrical Kite is found on pages 565-567. Disbound. "The most dramatic result of Franklin's researches was the proof that lightening is really an electrical phenomenon. Others had made such a suggestion before him - even Newton himself - but it was he who provided the experimental proof. In 1752 he flew a kite in a thunderstorm and attached a key to its string. From this he collected electrical charges in a Leiden jar and showed that atmospheric and frictional or machine-made electricity are the same. He went on to propose the fixing of iron rods at the top of buildings, masts of ships, etc., from which he conducted the electric charges they collected from lightening into the wet subsoil - the invention of the lightening conductor." "His reputation as a scientist was immediately established by the publication of the results of his researches in a series of letters addressed to Peter Collinson, a London merchant and naturalist, in 1751; and the Experiments and Observations [ which collected all the Collinson letters not just those offered here ] remains the most important scientific book of eighteenth-century America." (Printing and the Mind of Men 2nd edition, #199).

Tillotson, Ralph Barker & Thomas Birch, JohnThe Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. In Three (3, III) Volumes J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper et al., London, 1752, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good Condition, Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket, Edition UnstatedVol. I: cxliv + 614pp. Contains frontispiece. To this edition is prefixed The Life of the Author, Compiled Chiefly from his Original Papers and Letters, by Thomas Birch. Wear to boards. Extensive genealogy, of previous owners family to prelims. The family in question is that of Henry Eycott, original owner of this copy. From a a prosperous and influential family, Eycott was an active clothier owning and operating mills in the Stonehouse region, near Stroud. Occasional minor marking to pages. P. 611 torn but fully present and legible. Vol. II: Containing Two Hundred Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions: Published from the Originals by Ralph Barker. xvi + 696pp. Wear to boards and spine. Woodworm to pastedowns and prelims. Eycott's signature and stamp to front end paper and title respectively. Occasional creasing to corners. Minor toning to some pages. Vol. III: Containing Two Hundred Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions: To which are Annexed, Prayers Composed by him for his own Use; A Discourse to his Servants before Sacrament; And a Form of Prayer, Composed by Him, for the Use of King William. Wear to boards and spine. Base of spine knicked with minor loss. Chips to top of spine. Eycott's signature and stamp to front end paper and title respectively. Minor woodworm to rear pastedown and end paper. Occasional creasing to pages. Very mild foxing occasional throughout. John Tillotson was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691-1694. In 1670 he became prebendary and in 1672 dean of Canterbury. That latter year he was alao elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1675 he edited John Wilkins's Principles of Natural Religion, completing what was left unfinished of it, and in 1682 his Sermons. Along with Burnet, Tillotson attended William Russell, Lord Russell on the scaffold in 1683. In 1684, he wrote a Discourse against Transubstantiation. He afterwards enjoyed the friendship of Lady Russell, and it was partly through her that he obtained so much influence with Princess Anne, who followed his advice in regard to the settlement of the crown on William of Orange. He possessed the special confidence of William and Mary, and was made clerk of the closet to the king in March 1689. It was chiefly through his advice that the king appointed an ecclesiastical commission for the reconciliation of the Dissenters. In August of this year he was appointed by the chapter of his cathedral to exercise the archiepiscopal jurisdiction of the province of Canterbury during the suspension of Sancroft. He was also about the same time named dean of St Paul's. Soon afterwards he was elected to succeed Sancroft; but accepted the promotion with extreme reluctance, and it was deferred from time to time, at his request, until April 1691. In 1693 he published four lectures on the Socinian controversy, partly to clear his own name from charges of sympathy with Socinianism in his previous associations with Thomas Firmin, Stephen Nye and others. His attempts to reform certain abuses of the Church, especially that of clerical non-residence, awakened much ill-will, and of this the Jacobites took advantage, pursuing him to the end of his life with insult and reproach. He died on 22 November 1694. For his manuscript sermons Tillotson's widow received 2500 guineas. Ralph Barker edited some 250 of them together with the "Rule of Faith" (1695-1704). In 1752 an edition appeared in 3 vols., with Life by Thomas Birch, compiled from Tillotson's original papers and letters. Various selections from his sermons and works have been published separately. AMS Press, New York, published a modern edition of his works in the 1980s. In his home town of Sowerby, a statue of Tillotson still exists in St. Peter's church and an avenue is named after him in the lower end of the town. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 3-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 5 kilos. Category: Religion & Theology; Britain/UK; 18th century; History. Inventory No: 003323.

Pigott, Nathaniel)New Precedents in Conveyancing. Containing Great Variety of curious Draughts, many of them on Special Occasions, Drawn or Settled by Mr. Piggot, Northey, Webb, and other Eminent Hands. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for Sarah Cotter, 1752 - .and now Publish'd from Original Manuscripts; 2 volumes, [title leaf], [4 leaves] (Subscribers), [1 leaf] (Preface with the recto numbered as 3 and the verso as v, 310 pp. + [title leaf], 311-576, [32] (Alphabetical Table) pp., contemporary full calf with red leather labels, armorial book plates of Owen Williams of Temple House, Berkshire; binding rubbed, especially at spines and joints, general light age toning, short pen note at end of text in second volume, margins in Alphabetical Table cut short with a few letters barely touched but else a near very good text. Photos available upon request.

De Voltaire; Amelot de la Houssaye (Preface)Anti-Machiavel, or an Examination of Machavel&#39;s Prince with Notes Historical and Political Translated from the French Holborn (England): C. Davis, 1752 hardcover (MDCCLII, 1752), xxiii, 332, 4; very tight and secure text block, pages without any marks, only occasional foxing, worm hole on one page, no half-title page; front cover detached, rear cover securely attached but with crack along its length with text block and light pencil drawing and arithmetic problems inside; stain along edges of front and rear covers; three corners of covers rubbed, one heavily, spine with five raised bands with barely visible title and small designs in compartments, missing 1â€ section at top, rubbing at bottom; book plate inside front cover partially obscuring inscription in old hand, â€œKelso Libraryâ€ inked in old hand on title page. With Preface by Amelot de la Houssaye (XI-XX) preceded by Introduction (V-X); text followed by 4 pages of advertisements (â€œBooks Printed for T. Woodwardâ€).

HILL, J.An History of Animals. Containing descriptions of the Birds, Beasts, Fishes, and Insects, of the several Parts of the World; and including accounts of the several classes of Animalcules, visible only by the assistance of Microscopes... London, Thomas Osborne, 1752. Folio (375 x 235mm). pp. (8), 584, (4), with 28 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, spine in 6 compartments with black gilt lettered label, marbled sides. A separately published volume of Hill's 'A General Natural History', which contained a volume on Botany, one on Mineralogy and a final one on Zoology. The present work is an attractively illustrated encyclopaedia of the animal world. "Hill's principal achievement in zoology is the third volume of the 'General Natural History', on animals. A large section is devoted to microscopic animals, and some of the names Hill coined for these animals still stands, such as 'paramecium'"(DSB). "This work, in the English language, was unsurpassed as a source of information on natural history and as a work of almost unbelievable labour" (Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans p. 210). The fine engraved plates are by B. Cole and show among others insects, fishes, shells and birds. An uncut copy.//Nissen ZBI, 1939; Anker 210.

Francisco Sanchez de las Brozas; Caspar Schoppe; Jacobus PerizoniusFranc. Sanctii, Brocensis, in Inclyta Salmanticensi Academia Primarii Rhetorices & Graecae Linguae Doctoris, Minerva, Seu De Causis Linguae Latinae Commentarius Amstelaedami : Tournes 1752 - New edition. Octavo. Frontis, [15], 862p, 32p. Latin. Bound in contemporary full leather. Gilt lettering on red Moroccan spine label. 5 raised bands. Tight binding and cover. Marbled endpages. Page ends washed red. Minimal shelfwear. Owners stamp on title page of former American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and Bishop of Cleveland, Ignatius Frederick Horstmann. Clean, unmarked pages. Palau 294882-4. CCPB 890213-5. Francisco Sanchez de las Brozas, also known as El Brocense, and in Latin as Franciscus Sanctius Brocensis, was a Spanish philologist and humanist. The importance of the ideas of el Brocense in the reform of classical studies in Spain is, in the mid-16th century, comparable to that of Antonio de Nebrija at the beginning of the century. He is mostly remembered for his Minerva sive de causis linguae Latinae (Salamanca: Renaut, 1587), a Latin grammar in four books or sections (study of the parts of speech, the noun, the verb, and the figures) which, subjecting the study of language to reason, is one of the very first epistemological grammars and made him a European celebrity for several generations. While the first grammarians of Humanism (Lorenzo Valla or Antonio de Nebrija) were still writing normative grammars based on the usus scribendi of the ancient authors, el Brocense took ratio (reason) as the cornerstone of his whole grammatical system. He acknowledged no other authority than reason and took to its ultimate consequences the logic of grammatical study. He was determined to make everything fit within rational schemes, and granted in his grammatical interpretation a very important role to ellipsis, an essential tool of his system. In that search for rational explanations, he stepped beyond the limits of the Latin language to go as far as to foreshadow the universal grammar which is implicit in all languages. He is thus a most important milestone towards Port-Royal Grammar and Noam Chomsky's generative grammar. His Minerva was very successful, and had had 15 editions by 1761. The dense scholia by Scioppius appeared in the mid-17th century and would accompany the Minerva until the 19th century. The notes by Perizonius were written at the request of a publisher from Franeker in the Netherlands. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas.Carte de l'Empire du Japon. 1752. 1752 - Copper engraving. Later colouring. Size: 31 x 21 cm. (12 x 8½ inches) Near fine An attractive map with with the colouring emphasizing the different districts of Japan. The map is very similar to the map of the same name shown in Walter's Japan (cat81, p197) for Charlevoix's Histoire du Japon, but the ornamental cartouche is different, the map itself, and the area covered by the map is slightly smaller. Lutz Walter, p197. Lutz Walter 81, p197.

Buache / KaempferCarte des Nouvelles Decouvertes. . . / Extrait d'une Carte Japonoise de l'Univers Paris 1752 - The map is divided into 2 sections1752 - 1756 "These maps were included in Diderot's Enclyclopedie and thus were give wide circulation and much authority. This map is a simplified version of one made by Buache in 1752, the first to show Bearings two voyages of 1728 -30 and 1741-2 it was also the first to show the mythical Mer de l'Ouest in the vicinity of Vancouver, and idea subsequently much copied. Oddly if gives a Chinese name, Fou-Sang, to British Coloumbia. The lower map is a detail copied from a Japanese Map." (Portinaro and Knirsch pg. 249), Size : 295x380 (mm), 11.625x15 (Inches), Black & White